Posted by: DaVe RaNdOm
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
If you've found an answer to all your questions, it signifies your questions were wrong.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Pick the day. Enjoy it, to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come. The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Think of the millions of people who live together even if they don't like it, they hate their job but are afraid of losing it, it's normal that they should have the face they have.
Where is the present? It's on hanging billiards and it goes held firm with the hand in order to stop it otherwise you notice with delay what you have lost, and the implication that is still disowned.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.